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rggoodie Moderator United States 23543 Posts	Posted 01/06/2007 9:15 pm I received this very official looking suspension from ebay today IT IS A FAKE ebay International AG sent this message. SB NOTICE: ebay Registration Suspension - Shill Bidding FOR YOUR SAFETY DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINKS BELOW- In FACT I WILL EDIT THEM SO THEY DO NOT WORK Hello, This email is to notify you that your account has been suspended for a minimum of 7 days due to violation of our Shill Bidding Policy. Shill Bidding is bidding that artificially increases an item's price or apparent desirability. Shill Bidding is prohibited on ebay. Information on ebay's Shill Bidding Policy can be found at: mttq://pages.ebay.con/help/policies/seller-shill-bidding.html Your account has been found to be involved in Shill Bidding with the following associated accounts: patton-valentine You are prohibited from using ebay in any way (including use of other existing accounts or registering new accounts) during your suspension. Any auctions you currently have open have been cancelled. Please note that any fees incurred for these auctions will not be credited back to your account. Your account will remain suspended for a minimum of 7 days, after which time you may appeal the suspension by replying to this email. If you want to unsuspend your account now click the link below: wttq://signin.ebay.con/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn&Unsuspend Regards, SafeHarbor Department ebay, Inc. Learn how you can protect yourself from spoof (fake) emails at: http://pages.ebay.com/education/spooftutorial See our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have questions about ebay's communication policies. Privacy Policy: http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies...-policy.html User Agreement: http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies...reement.html Copyright © 2006 ebay, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. ebay and the ebay logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of ebay, Inc. rggoodie aka Richard "catch em doing something right" Edited by rggoodie 01/06/2007 10:12 pm Report this Post to the Staff

AuldFartte Pillar of the Community United States 830 Posts	Posted 01/06/2007 9:48 pm They keep getting more inventive, don't they? Report this Post to the Staff
muckeye Rest in Peace Australia 661 Posts	Posted 01/07/2007 05:38 am Similar ones have been arriving in Oz over the past 2 months. regards Report this Post to the Staff
Morgan Fred Rest in Peace United States 2684 Posts	Posted 01/07/2007 10:45 am I've been receiving ebay dispute messages over the past couple months. They want to know why I haven't sent an item or why I haven't paid for an item or something along these lines. They use real auctions and real ebay identities, but are otherwise spoofed. Buncha garbage. I was sending them to ebay's abuse department, but it's less time consuming now just to trash them. On the flip side of the coin, a non-winning bidder for one of my auctions received a fake Second Chance Offer. Fortunately, the recipient had the smarts to contact me rather than respond to the message. But as a result, I've now had to include in my auctions a statement that I do not send Second Chance Offers. The con artists never give up. Fred Report this Post to the Staff
TLS5933 Pillar of the Community United States 1703 Posts	Posted 01/07/2007 11:07 am I get two or three different ones a week. Saying I need a password change,account has been suspended,asking me to pay for something I didn't buy and the worst of all is saying I have a second chance offer on a coin I did bid on but didn't win. You have to watch those close. All these notifications will be in your MY ebay if they are legit. Be careful and never respond or give information to any of these scam emails. Report this Post to the Staff
SE Valued Member United States 256 Posts	Posted 01/07/2007 11:08 am I get email once per week stating that if I do not respond, my paypal account will be cancelled. I also get (once per week also) the good old email stating that there has been attempts to access my paypal account. Funny thing is these come to an email account that neither paypal or ebay even knows exsist. Hmm. Report this Post to the Staff
AuldFartte Pillar of the Community United States 830 Posts	Posted 01/07/2007 12:37 pm I know it's a pain in the tail-end, but I'd like to suggest that we, as a group of conscientious collectors, try to always forward these phony communications to either spoof@ebay.com or spoof@paypal.com as a matter of habit. My reasoning is this: The more of this kind of garbage that inundates their system, the more they ( ebay and PayPal) might seriously work towards the elimination of these "phishing" expeditions by scammers. Ebay/PayPal have more money than God, therefore more ability to fix this problem, and they need to be aware of the enormity of this problem, and need to be made to fix it as much and as soon as possible. End of rant Report this Post to the Staff
rggoodie Moderator United States 23543 Posts	Posted 01/07/2007 1:44 pm I forwarded them but most important I included the headers By doing this it enables the email to be tracked back to the sender. Report this Post to the Staff
TLS5933 Pillar of the Community United States 1703 Posts	Posted 01/07/2007 3:23 pm I always foward all of them. Report this Post to the Staff
Metalman Pillar of the Community United States 7123 Posts	Posted 01/07/2007 3:45 pm I have been suspended by both ebay and pay pal at least a dozen times in the last couple of months,, I have even had someone buy tires using my pay pal account ,, which was a very good trick since I have not put a card # on there in the last 3 or 4 years. and I removed the one that they lost the info from at that time. They are spoofs and nothing ever happens to them no matter how many of them are forwarded to the trust and safty team. anyone who can prove different I would welcome the info !! Rick Report this Post to the Staff
Morgan Fred Rest in Peace United States 2684 Posts	Posted 01/07/2007 10:19 pm quote: Originally posted by Metalman I have been suspended by both ebay and pay pal at least a dozen times in the last couple of months,, I have even had someone buy tires using my pay pal account ,, which was a very good trick since I have not put a card # on there in the last 3 or 4 years. and I removed the one that they lost the info from at that time. They are spoofs and nothing ever happens to them no matter how many of them are forwarded to the trust and safty team. anyone who can prove different I would welcome the info !! Rick Agreed. Many if not most (all?) originate in third world countries or where enforcement is difficult or impossible. About the only way to get to the spoofers is to send in some Special Forces, SEAL Teams, or Delta Force troops to take them out. I would not be opposed to this approach, even if it created some more foreign relations problems. Come to think on it, the host nations might even provide troops themselves. Report this Post to the Staff
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